Last week, Infobright announced it had open sourced its data
warehousing software code. This is good news for the growing
number of organizations looking to use MySQL as a data
warehousing platform. According to IDC, MySQL is already the
third-most deployed database for data warehousing and
Infobright’s move will give users yet another reason to seriously
consider MySQL for this application.

For those of you not familiar with the Infobright offering, it is
essentially a column-oriented data store for data warehousing.
While the column-oriented approach is not exclusive to Infobright
(Kickfire’s MySQL storage engine is also column-oriented, as are
some other non-MySQL data warehousing solutions on the market)
Infobright does have some unique technology that Lou Agosta
recently described as follows in his post on Trends in
Data Warehousing for the Second Half of 2008: …

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